In addition to faculty members formally appointed as clinicians in quality and innovation, a number of Department of Medicine faculty members engage in scholarly activities in the areas of research and education that relate closely to quality improvement (QI). As a result, there is a broader network of clinician-teachers/educators and clinician-investigators/scientists who are engaged in quality and innovation. Below are some of these faculty members:
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Howard Abrams
- Director, OpenLab, and general internist at University Health Network (UHN)
- Using Design Thinking to change the process and experience of care
- Predictive models
- Creative models of patient engagement
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Jonathan Ailon
- General internist and palliative care physician at St. Michael's Hospital and Bridgepoint Health
- Lead, Incident Analysis Team for general internal medicine, St. Michael's Hospital
- Lead, Undergraduate Ultrasound Committee, and Postgraduate Ultrasound Half-Day, University of Toronto - Development of targeted curricula to enhance diagnostic accuracy and procedural safety
- Member, Palliative Care Quality and Safety Committee, St. Michael's Hospital - critical incident review and development of ambulatory palliative care services to improve access and quality of care for patients with palliative diagnoses
- Building capacity amongst medical trainees and allied healthcare personnel in patient safety and quality improvement through curricular development, project supervision, and mentorship
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Andre Amaral
- Intensive care physician and co-chair of quality for critical care at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Focusing on communication, to prevent errors and improve efficiency in the ICU, as well as transitions for patients
- Participating in a novel implementation science collaboration across Ontario for large-scale quality improvement in a partnership of community and academic intensive care units
- Chair of Choosing Wisely Campaign for Critical Care Canada
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Natasha Bollegala
- Staff gastroenterologist at Women’s College Hospital
- Assistant Professor and clinician investigator in quality and innovation
- Interest in the area of quality improvement and vulnerable populations in IBD
- Particular focus on pediatric to adult transition of care
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Trevor Champagne
- Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Division of Dermatology
- Innovation Fellow, WCH Institute for Health Systems Solutions and Virtual Care
- Working hard to expand the breadth of virtual care in Dermatology (both outpatients and inpatients)
- Artificial intelligence (diagnostic, predictive, classifiers, drug reactions)
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Lucas Chartier
- Emergency physician and Deputy Medical Director, Emergency Department, University Health Network
- Medical Director, Quality & Safety, University Health Network
- Lead for Emergency Medicine, Toronto Central LHIN
- Co-Chair, Return Visit Quality Program Provincial Working Group, Ontario Health - Quality
- Chair, Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians' QIPS Committee
- Academic interests: capacity building in QIPS and medical leadership, return visits to emergency departments, resource appropriateness
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Amy Cheng
- Emergency physician at St. Michael’s Hospital
- Emergency department director of quality improvement
- Choosing Wisely Canada - co-chair of Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians
- Improving the quality and safety during transitions of care
- Quality improvement and patient safety curriculum for postgraduate trainees
- Individual physician feedback
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Shirley Lake
- Promoting safe and quality care in rheumatology through:
- Building capacity in patient safety and quality improvement amongst medical trainees and rheumatologists through education, project supervision, and mentorship
- Co-chair of Choosing Wisely committee of the Canadian Rheumatology Association - advocating for the resource stewardship of finite resources amongst membership, improving appropriate resource utilization of rheumatology tests and serology
- Development of curriculum and continuing education in point-of-care musculoskeletal ultrasound – Educational officer for Canadian Rheumatology Ultrasound Society
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Irfan Dhalla
- Vice-President, Physician Quality and Director, Care Experience Institute, Unity Health Toronto
- General internist at St. Michael’s Hospital site of Unity Health Toronto
- Associate Professor in Department of Medicine and Institute for Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
- Working collaboratively to embed quality improvement and better care experience across Unity Health Toronto
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Edward Etchells
- General Internal Medicine at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Medical Director, Information Services, at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Senior faculty mentor, clinicians in quality and innovation, Department of Medicine
- Creative professional focus: reducing medication errors at admission and discharge through user centered design of clinical software
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Natasha Gakhal
- Rheumatologist and clinician in quality and innovation at Women’s College Hospital
- Improving triage and access to rheumatology care
- Improving communication and collaboration between subspecialty and primary care
- Education and mentorship in quality improvement
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Sonal Gandhi
- Medical Oncologist, Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre, breast and melanoma
- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine, University of Toronto
- Quality Lead, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Dept. of Medical Oncology
- Previous Systemic Therapy Quality Lead, Toronto Central North, Cancer Care Ontario (2012-2019)
- MSc training in International Health Technology Assessment and Management
- Cancer systemic therapy toxicity management (particularly immunotherapy), oral anti-cancer medication standardization and safety, optimizing care at end-of-life for cancer patients, clinical care guidelines (breast cancer), interdisciplinary models of care, and health technologies in cancer
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Bill Geerts
- Thromboembolism specialist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- National Lead, Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism, Canadian Patient Safety Institute
- Quality improvement in the provision of optimal thromboprophylaxis in hospitalized patients
- Prevention of heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
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Ilana Halperin
- Endocrinologist and internist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Capturing point of clinical care data and patient reported metrics to improve quality of care for patients with diabetes
- Improving experience and outcome of hospitalized patients with diabetes
- Optimizing electronic medical record use to drive quality improvement
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Susy Hota
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Infectious Diseases and Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control, University Health Network
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Associate Professor and clinician in quality improvement and innovation, University of Toronto
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Interests include exploring innovative ways to reduce the incidence of Clostridioides difficile infection and improve patient outcomes; health systems preparedness for emerging infectious diseases; reducing healthcare-associated infections
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Co-lead of University of Toronto Microbiota Therapeutics Outcomes Program (MTOP) – regionally facilitating fecal microbiota transplantation for multidisciplinary research and clinical care in CDI
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Trevor Jamieson
- General Internist at St. Michael’s and Women’s College Hospitals; Lead for Virtual Care, Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care (WIHV)
- Information Technology tools to improve care continuity, collaboration and handover
- Design of frameworks for the evaluation of virtual care technologies
- Evaluation of the impact of virtual care technologies (e.g. apps, wearables) on patient experience, efficiency, economics and health outcomes
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Charles Kassardjian
- Neurologist, St. Michael's Hospital
- Education and curriculum development for post-graduate trainees in quality improvement, and methods of evaluation
- Improving the quality and consistency of care for complex neuromuscular patients on immunosuppression
- Patient safety issues around EMG and the reliability of EMG testing
- Improving outcomes for inpatient stroke
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Houman Khosravani
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Clinician in Quality & Innovation and Assistant Professor, Division of Neurology, and Stroke Unit Medical Director, Sunnybrook HSC
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Improvement of hyper-acute stroke management including door-to-needle times for thrombolysis, development of stroke pathways, overlap between internal medicine and inpatient stroke neurology, and development of a framework for excellence in comprehensive neurovascular care
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Implementation of stroke-best practices in antithrombotics and anticoagulation
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Computation and computer science facilitating delivery of safe and high-quality care
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Janice Kwan
- General internist and clinician in quality and innovation at Sinai Health System
- Diagnostic error
- Follow-up of missed test results
- Quality and safety of care in general internal medicine
- Education and mentorship in quality and safety
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Jerome Leis
- General internist and infectious diseases specialist; associate scientist, Sunnybrook Research Institute
- Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention and Control - evaluation of new systems of care to prevent healthcare-associated infections and spread of antimicrobial resistance
- Resource stewardship of finite resources - reduction in unnecessary microbiologic testing that leads to cascade of low-value care
- Choosing Wisely Canada - co-chair of Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (AMMI) Canada
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Alex Lo
- Physiatrist at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network
- Curriculum and faculty development in quality improvement and patient safety
- Quality improvement education and mentorship for physicians and interprofessional teams
- Adapting Morbidity and Mortality Rounds to rehabilitation
- Improving quality of care and safety for patients in rehabilitation
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Amanda Mayo
- Physiatrist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; assistant professor Department of Medicine
- Clinician in quality and innovation, clinical engineer
- Improving the continuum of care for amputee patients
- Risk factor modification in dysvascular amputees
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Kieran McIntyre
- Respirologist and cystic fibrosis (CF) physician at St. Michael's Hospital
- Systems design and optimizing complex multidisciplinary care to patients with CF
- Reducing unnecessary testing in respirology-Choosing Wisely
- Innovative model of care for patients with malignant pleural effusion
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Geetha Mukerji
- Endocrinologist and general internist, Women’s College Hospital, cross-affiliated with Sinai Health System
- Clinician in quality and innovation, Women's College Hospital Institute for Health Systems Solutions and Virtual Care
- Developing better quality measures in diabetes ambulatory care with a focus on incorporating the patient perspective
- Resource stewardship efforts to promote value in endocrinology
- System improvement efforts to improve ambulatory care including delivery models that focus on patients with chronic complex conditions, pediatric to adult transitions of care and diabetes in pregnancy populations
- Building capacity in quality improvement and patient safety through education and mentorship
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Jeff Powis
- General Internist & Infectious Diseases specialist at Michael Garron Hospital (formerly Toronto East General Hospital)
- Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention and Control - Evaluation of new systems of care to optimize antimicrobial utilization and spread of antimicrobial resistance
- Microbiology Stewardship - Reduction in unnecessary microbiologic testing that leads to cascade of low-value care
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Shail Rawal
- General internist and clinician in quality and innovation at University Health Network
- Intersection of health equity and quality improvement
- Characterizing the uses of patient-level sociodemographic data to improve patient care
- Improving the quality of care received by patients with limited English proficiency.
- Quality and safety of care in general internal medicine
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Kaveh Shojania
- Vice-Chair, Quality & Innovation
- General internist and clinician-scientist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Evidence synthesis in quality improvement and patient safety – identifying evidence-based patient safety interventions and effective strategies for translating evidence into practice
- Promoting more rigorous research in the fields of patient safety and quality improvement through writing and medical editing activities (editor-in-chief of BMJ Quality & Safety Quality since 2011)
- Education and training in quality improvement methods
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Simron Singh
- Medical oncologist, Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre
- Provincial Head, Person Centered Care, Canadian Cancer Ontario
- Associate scientist, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
- Using the patient experience to drive clinical care
- Interested in patient experience, patient engagement, disparities in cancer
- Choosing Wisely in oncology
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Christine Soong
- Associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto and Hospital Medicine Division Head at Sinai Health System
- Medical Lead for Sinai Health System’s Urgent and Critical Care Program
- Improving care transitions and hospital discharge and the quality of care for orthopedic hip fracture patients
- Resource stewardship and reducing the inappropriate use of psychotropic medications in hospitalized patients
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Amanda Steiman
- Rheumatologist at Sinai Health System/University Health Network, clinician in quality and innovation
- Co-Lead Project ECHO Rheumatology (Ontario)
- Improving delivery of care to rheumatology patients in underserviced areas
- Improving quality of care to patients with multisystemic rheumatic disease
- Education and mentorship in quality improvement
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Kathryn Tinckam
- Transplant nephrologist and medical director of the regional human leukocyte antigen (HLA) Laboratory at University Health Network
- Medical advisor – Transplantation, Canadian Blood Services
- Aligning HLA laboratory practices in support of interprovincial transplant listing and allocation programs
- Development of interprovincial transplant listing and allocation policy and process
- Strategies to predict the likelihood of transplant matching for recipients and donors in Kidney Paired Exchange
- Determination of potential benefit of compatible pair participation in Kidney Paired Exchange
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Samuel Vaillancourt
- Quality improvement lead for the emergency department at St. Michael's Hospital
- Emergency physician and trauma team leader
- Developed a patient reported outcome measure for use with emergency department patients (PROM-ED.org)
- Interested in quality measurement and in design methodology to support quality improvement work
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Amol Verma
- General internist and clinician-scientist at St. Michael's Hospital
- Improving quality in inpatient general internal medicine using audit-and-feedback
- Incorporating predictive analytics to improve patient outcomes in hospital
- Using electronic clinical data to measure quality of care and identify opportunities for improvement
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Adina Weinerman
- General internist and clinician in quality and innovation at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Medical Director, Quality and Patient Safety at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Implementation and evaluation of hospital-wide appropriate resource utilization initiatives
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Adam Weizman
- Gastroenterologist, Sinai Health System
- Assistant professor of medicine, University of Toronto
- Head, Quality and Patient Safety, Division of Gastroenterology, University Health Network/Sinai Health System
- Guideline development and implementation among patients with inflammatory bowel disease
- Development of new models of care in patients with digestive diseases
- Education and mentorship in quality improvement and patient safety
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Brian Wong
- General internist and clinician-educator at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Building capacity to engage in and teach patient safety, quality improvement and resource stewardship through curricular innovation and faculty development
- Promoting the alignment and integration of continuing education and quality improvement
- Research on patient safety, including disclosure, patient handover and duty hours
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Camilla Wong
- Geriatrician, St. Michael's Hospital; project investigator, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute
- Implementation and evaluation of a proactive geriatric trauma consultation service
- Optimizing stratification of older oncology patients for comprehensive geriatric assessment
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Robert Wu
- General internist at University Health Network
- Site Director, General Internal Medicine, Toronto General Hospital
- Using and evaluating information technology to improve care
- Improving clinical communication including smartphones, messaging, handovers
- Improving efficiency on the medical wards
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